A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...

Brad Sigmon had three options: die by firing squad, die by electrocution or die by a new lethal injection drug. He chose the firing squad. Mikal Mahdi made the same choice. South Carolina executed ...

There have been two firing squad executions in South Carolina this year. In early March, Brad Sigmon, a 67-year-old who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 ...

Stephen Bryant will have until Oct. 31 to choose if he wants to die by lethal injection, firing squad or in the electric ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court issued ...

COLUMBIA — Just a couple of months ago, Stephen Stanko was leaning toward being executed by gunfire. Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing ...

South Carolina man Mikal Mahdi — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of a police officer — was executed by firing squad on April 11 Now, attorneys for Mahdi are claiming he died ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to death for the murders of his girlfriend, Laura Ling, and his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner in April, 2005. South Carolina Department of Corrections When the three ...